Aurora Cornu (6 December 1931 – 14 March 2021) was a Romanian-born French writer, actress, film director, and translator.
Her father died in prison after he was arrested for harboring a fugitive general of the defunct Romanian Royal Army (who was another of her uncles) for 11 years.
[1] She graduated from the Mihai Eminescu Literary School in Bucharest, and worked for a while for the poetry section of Viața Românească while doing translations.
[4] Her fiancé in the mid-1960s, mathematician Tudor Ganea, did not succeed in getting her out of Romania, so she saw her chance to defect to the West while she was at the poetry festival in Knokke-Het Zoute, Belgium.
[2] While living in France, she married Aurel Cornea, a Romanian-born French television sound engineer, who was held hostage in Lebanon by the pro-Iranian Shiite Islamic group known as the Revolutionary Justice Organization for ten and a half months in 1986.